{"id":4576,"date":"2021-06-10T15:07:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/?p=4576"},"modified":"2021-06-10T15:07:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:07:47","slug":"what-you-do-not-know-about-the-156km-lagos-ibadan-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/2021\/06\/10\/what-you-do-not-know-about-the-156km-lagos-ibadan-expressway\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Do Not Know About The 156km Lagos\u2014Ibadan Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 156km Lagos\u2014Ibadan standard gauge railway line is the first double-track standard gauge rail in West Africa, and the first Nigerian railway line to be started AND completed by the SAME administration, since 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ground-breaking ceremony for the project was performed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on March 7, 2017. Construction started right after, and test-running commenced in December 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 21 large and medium sized bridges, with a total length of 6.08km, 12 frame bridges, 256 culverts, 25 overpasses and 10 Stations, in the project. The track-laying covers a total length of 380.03km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ebute Metta Station, known as the Mobolaji Johnson Station, is the largest railway station in West Africa with a holding capacity of 6000 passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Buhari is committed to developing a modern national railway network that will connect every part of Nigeria, and promote trade, travel, tourism, commerce and national integration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-los2-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.6435-9\/199248886_4582747638420846_1506878192945135551_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&amp;ccb=1-3&amp;_nc_sid=730e14&amp;_nc_eui2=AeH413O43zbl_v-EPMhqBl6LIpkIFqhsPyAimQgWqGw_IFuXiEH_zq8pBxLTbO4yZ64_Sv14kown5SOmZKe1P0m8&amp;_nc_ohc=RSsTac49aKUAX98tut-&amp;_nc_oc=AQn56qT67KZfkji4nBUMRvLa9ZdR3KyLGTMSv6nKiineqBXxmWIACW3OsdD5UfVvz5I&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-los2-1.xx&amp;oh=3327a0f93f9719c32c82d5228e5f84c2&amp;oe=60E92C66\" alt=\"No photo description available.\"\/><figcaption><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-los2-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.6435-9\/196125946_4582748151754128_5834878648194085156_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&amp;ccb=1-3&amp;_nc_sid=730e14&amp;_nc_eui2=AeETWNh2boEIu-eHsKVPa7F1jvxhd5rrDvqO_GF3musO-q2eFlKOH4kb-mvbNaVSvrr3fqF4ILt6NmKFEC8wTxor&amp;_nc_ohc=ZCphetD9By0AX-eRk5B&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-los2-1.xx&amp;oh=52d7c435b2520a31f38d08aa6f11bfd8&amp;oe=60E843BB\" alt=\"May be an image of 1 person, standing and indoor\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 156km Lagos\u2014Ibadan standard gauge railway line is the first double-track standard gauge rail in West Africa, and the first Nigerian railway line to be started AND completed by the SAME administration, since 1960. The ground-breaking ceremony for the project was performed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on March 7, 2017. Construction started right after, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}